A popular history of reptiles; or, An introduction to the study of the class reptilia1843 |
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... the animal kingdom ; and a general survey of these creatures will show the wonderful variety of form and structure , which adapts them for different localities . B The beauty of some , resplendent with burnished hues , INTRODUCTION.
... the animal kingdom ; and a general survey of these creatures will show the wonderful variety of form and structure , which adapts them for different localities . B The beauty of some , resplendent with burnished hues , INTRODUCTION.
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... creatures of small size only , or of a weak frame , constitute the representatives of the fierce , the gigantic , and the deadly , which revel in the thronged regions of the intertropics . The viper , for example , of England , and ...
... creatures of small size only , or of a weak frame , constitute the representatives of the fierce , the gigantic , and the deadly , which revel in the thronged regions of the intertropics . The viper , for example , of England , and ...
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... creature to this sandy and dry country . By digging , however , in the ground , several in- sects , large spiders , and lizards were found in a half torpid state . On the 15th , a few animals began to appear ; and by the 18th , ( three ...
... creature to this sandy and dry country . By digging , however , in the ground , several in- sects , large spiders , and lizards were found in a half torpid state . On the 15th , a few animals began to appear ; and by the 18th , ( three ...
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... creatures formidable from the possession of poison fangs , death rapidly following their bite . - We shall divide the reptilia into the following orders : - Class REPTILIA . ( Repto , to creep along . ) Order I. Chelonia - Tortoises ...
... creatures formidable from the possession of poison fangs , death rapidly following their bite . - We shall divide the reptilia into the following orders : - Class REPTILIA . ( Repto , to creep along . ) Order I. Chelonia - Tortoises ...
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... creatures display , that the atheist , when he considers them , is overwhelmed with a sense of his own folly ; and though he may say in his heart there is no God , cannot say so in his head ; his depraved wishes , not his intellect ...
... creatures display , that the atheist , when he considers them , is overwhelmed with a sense of his own folly ; and though he may say in his heart there is no God , cannot say so in his head ; his depraved wishes , not his intellect ...
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ACONTIAS Africa Amphibia animal appear aquatic belonging Bibron birds bite body bones brown carapace Chameleon claws Cobra colour common concealed covered creature Crocodile Cuvier darts Dumeril edge eggs Emys engraving eyes feed feet fishes flesh folds Frog Geckos genera genus green ground habits Hamadryas head horny Iguana inches India inhabits insects islands jaws known Lacépède latter length limbs living Lizard lungs margin marsh Tortoises Matamata meleon membrane mouth moveable muzzle Naja native naturalists neck nostrils observed orifice plastron plates poison portion posterior prey Python quadrupeds Rattlesnake Reptiles resembling ribs ridge Sand Lizard Sauria says scales seen seize Serpents side skin slender Slow-worm Snake sometimes species specimen spot surface swallowed swim tail teeth terrestrial throat tion Toad toes toise tongue torpid trees Turtle upper Varans venomous venomous Snake vertebræ Viper Viviparous Lizard yellow yellowish young
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Стр. 208 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made : for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it : and he called it Nehushtan.
Стр. 227 - ... The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Стр. 112 - Who can open the doors of his face ? His teeth are terrible round about.
Стр. 112 - Sharp stones are under him ; he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire, he maketh the deep to boil like a pot, he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Стр. 249 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse heels, So that his rider shall fall backward.
Стр. 49 - ... eyes, and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the...
Стр. 142 - As soon as it arrived near the margin, but still being under water, it either tried to conceal itself in the tufts of sea-weed, or it entered some crevice. As soon as it thought the danger was past, it crawled out on the dry rocks, and shuffled away as quickly as it could.
Стр. 79 - ... it out with so much dexterity, that the sides seldom, if ever, fall in. The sand is raised alternately with each flapper, as with a large ladle, until it has accumulated behind her, when, supporting herself with her head and...
Стр. 79 - ... mind, she retreats to the water with all possible dispatch, leaving the hatching of the eggs to the heat of the sand. When a turtle, a loggerhead for example, is in the act of dropping her eggs, she will not move although one should go up to her, or even seat himself on her back, for it seems...
Стр. 79 - The whole time spent in this part of the operation may be about twenty minutes. She now scrapes the loose sand back over the eggs, and so levels and smooths the surface, that few persons on seeing the spot could imagine anything had been done to it.